The Fathers of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the
Plenary Assembly of November 14-15, 1972, regarding the ecclesiastical burial
have decreed that funerals for manifest sinners are no longer forbidden, if
before death they gave some sign of repentance and if public scandal among the
other faithful is avoided.

The Holy Father Paul VI, in the Audience granted to the undersigned Prefect on
November 17, 1972, ratified, approved, and ordered this decision of the Fathers
to be published, abrogating insofar as necessary canon 1240 §1, notwithstanding
any contrary disposition.